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True Names

by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow

Usage Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

Topics sciencefiction, corydoctorow, singularity, truenames, benjaminrosenbaum, rosenbaum, doctorow, anders, louanders, fastforward, fastforward2

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Filesxml Mon Aug 24 18:31:17 UTC 2009
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"True Names" is a science fiction novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow, initially published in Lou Anders' "Fast Forward 2" anthology, Pyr, 2008. It's the tale of duelling galactic colony-organisms that are competing to recruit all the matter in the universe for raw computation.